Saturday, 24 December 2016

Archons, Dominions and Thoughts that Run Wild

Archons, Dominions and Thoughts that Run Wild

ByJulian
Websdale

There is a
simple premise in esoteric literature: thoughts have power. Even modern science
accepts that behind the structure we know as the material world is a web of
energy, and the interactions between different types of energy create the
semblance of solidity we call matter. Thought, then, as a form of energy, has
the same power. This is why in so many traditions there are admonitions about
controlling the thought process, while thinking and doing are still different
things, thinking does have its effects.

Clairvoyants
of many persuasions have seen and documented the shapes and forms produced by
various types of thought; witness the work of Charles Leadbeater. While many of
these forms are fleeting, when empowered by the emotions and by memory they
become more than just thoughts, they become thought forms.

These
thoughtforms exist beyond simply when they are thought – they take on an
independent existence within the mind of the thinker. They then influence
memory and condition our perceptions of everyday life. We may want to see these
thoughtforms as only existing within the psyche of the neurotic or unstable,
and yet all of us have our lives conditioned by the thoughtforms we have
created in the past. For most people they never see the present unfiltered, all
experience is sieved through thoughtforms created from childhood, and even
beyond through past lives.

“Meme:
(pron. ‘meem’) A contagious idea that replicates like a virus, passed on from
mind to mind. Memes function the same way genes and viruses do, propagating
through communication networks and face-to-face contact between people.”

– David S. Bennahum.

Thoughts
however go much further. As documented in much modern research on Memes,
thoughtforms can become like viruses of the mind. They can spread throughout
groups, families, nations and indeed the world and are passed through the
deeper levels of the unconscious we all experience. Rumours, tales and urban myths
are all memes or thoughtforms. While they may be primarily passed by the
printed word, internet, media, etc., there is a time when they reach a certain
“saturation point” and then become part of the collective unconscious. This is
exceptionally dangerous as negative and violent forms can control groups and
crowds creating mob violence and aggression. These group-minds are really
thoughtforms out of control, and are known in the Gnostic Tradition as Archons.
There are multitudes of Archons dwelling both within our minds and within the
collective unconscious.

Not only can
Archons exist in the unconscious collective mind, they can create a breach into
the astral worlds through which fallen spiritual entities can then move into
the earthly spheres and control the thoughtforms created. The Archons are the
products of mankind enlivened by fallen spirits and fed by our own emotions.
They can control and influence individuals, collectives, even nations and
governments.

In Gnostic
literature these Archons can so increase in power that they become Dominions,
forces which control whole groups of people; even races and countries. People
of many religions think that they are worshipping the I-AM; however they are
actually feeding a false god, an Archon they have created from their own
ignorance. This happens all too often and is why the esoteric tradition is
imperative.

Without the
guidance of esotericism, many will be caught within the web of exoteric (outer)
religion. Fundamentalism, cults, literalism, extremism are all products of
incorrect readings of the spiritual tradition. When these groups develop, their
thoughtforms take on a life of their own and, not being connected to the “real”
energies of the Great Chain of Being, they soon sour and become a nexus for the
manifestation of fallen entities from the astral worlds.

These fallen
spirits work out of step with the universe and invigorate these forms so that
they become independent, discrete fields of energy within the astral world
(Archons). They grow from Archons to Dominions and rule from their astral
kingdoms. Their poor and unfortunate worshippers think they are following the
“true god” but are actually feeding monsters created from mans suffering and
ignorance. Many of these forms feed on suffering, while others feed on
pleasure, and they amplify the emotions of their members to gain more and more
sustenance. In some sense they are truly “spiritual vampires”, and without
esotericism, all religions and traditions succumb.

“(They
took…) The name of those that are good and gave it to those that are not good,
so that through the names they might deceive him (mankind) and bind those to
those that are not good.”

– Nag Hammadi Gospel of Phillip 54:18-25.

The imagery
of Archons is very strong in Gnostic literature, and because it has become
mixed with tales of cosmological dualism, many have come to believe that the
Archons are the result of a cosmic error or fall. The reality is that there was
no cosmic error, just a misinterpretation caused by ignorance. Yet at the same
time this ignorance has created a doorway through which fallen forms can enter
and it is these Archons, or whatever we call them, which keep us from
appreciating our own misperceptions. Indeed, it is through our own permission
that they enter the earth sphere. This is the idea which gave birth to the
“fall of man” tradition. Since man in his ignorance created fallen thought
forms and allowed fallen entities to enter into the earth stream, then
ultimately man is responsible for the present condition of his planet, his
culture and his soul.

The issue of
Archons is complex for there is an interaction between our own thoughtforms and
real fallen astral entities. The thoughtforms allow these entities to interface
with our own unconscious. They can change form according to the language of the
culture through which they communicate and, being a mixture of our own
thoughtforms and “fallen” spirits, can mimic our own hidden desires and needs.
While in Medieval periods we may have had demons, incubus and succubus, in the
present we have aliens, UFO abductions and medical experiments by creatures we
cannot see. In the modern mode, these Archons are sometimes called
“ultraterrestrials”. However we must realize that these forms are spiritual in
origin. Although there are many other races within our universe, it does seem
that a percentage of UFO sightings and experiences reflect our own fears,
terrors, needs and desires and hence have an Archontic origin.

“The
world is the work of lowly powers which, though they may mediately be descended
from Him, do not know the true God and obstruct the knowledge of Him in the
cosmos over which they rule. The genesis of these lower powers, the Archons,
and in general that of all the Orders of being outside God, including the world
itself, is the main theme of Gnostic speculation … The universe, the domain of
the Archons, is like a vast prison whose innermost dungeon is the earth, the
scene of man’s life. Around and above it the cosmic spheres are arranged like
concentric enclosing shells. Most frequently there are seven spheres of the
planets surrounded by the eighth and of the fixed stars…

The
religious significance of this cosmic architecture lies in the idea that
everything which intervenes between here and the beyond serves to separate from
God, not merely by spatial distance but by active demonic force. Thus the
vastness and multiplicity of the cosmic system express the degree to which man
is removed from God…

The
Archons collectively rule over the world and each individually in his sphere is
a warder of the cosmic prison. Their tyrannical world-rule is called
Hiemarmene, universal Fate … [This universal fate] aims at the enslavement of
man. As guardians of his sphere each Archon bars the passage to the souls that
seek to ascend after death, in order to prevent their escape from the world and
their return to God.” – The
Gnostic Religion, Hans Jonas.

So when we
read a description of Gnosticism such as that found in the classic text The Gnostic Religion by
Hans Jonas, we must appreciate that the seeming cosmic dualism is actually a
dualism between the real and the unreal, between the light of the higher worlds
and forces which have been created through ignorance. They are like “monsters
from the Id”, they seem real enough and since the physical world is shaped and
formed by our perceptions, they are for all intents and purposes real. The only
way for us to escape Hiemarmene (universal fate) is to realize that we have
created the prison bars ourselves.

“What a
tragic world this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the
ultimate tragedy is that they don’t know it; they think they are free because
they never have been free, and do not understand what it means. This is a
prison, and few men have guessed. But I know, he said to himself. Because that
is why I am here. To burn the walls, to tear down the metal gates, to break
each chain. Thou shalt not muzzle the Ox as he treadeth out the corn, he
thought, remembering the Torah.”

– The
Divine Invasion, Phillip K. Dick. HarperCollins 1981.

“For we
contend not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against the
powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness.”

– Ephesians 6:12.

While the
Archons and the Demiurge are creations of man’s ignorance, they are used by the
fallen spirits as a source of power. This is one of the major problems with the
Archons we create – they attract forms and spirits which are themselves in
ignorance and hence follow them.

Reference:

The
Institute for Gnostic Studies. (1997-2000). The
Gnostic Handbook. [e-book].

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1 comment:

What does it mean to FREE our thoughts? Perhaps it means to free our consciousness to perceive the subconsciousness and the unlimited potential of our creative expression, and to judge our natural expressions is to imprison our minds to a program that may or may not be contrary to the very essence of our beings.

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